Yes this card was very expensive when it came out (which was over 3 years ago).
Compared to todays “gaming standards” its a piece of crap and simply lacks the features required to run an up-to-date games (pixel & vertex shaders).
As far as I recall, it is based on an IBM chipset with one fixed pipeline geometrie chip (up to 29 Mpoly/sec) and a rasterization chip (up to 512 MPixels/sec).
This makes it compareable to a Geforce1 or Radeon except that it is a discontinued product.
Compared to a ATI Radeon 9500 (or better) its like a old ISA Trident 8 Bit VGA card (in other words it sucks badly).
Your chances to get a game to work on that card are slim to none.